Posted by bbc on 13 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: books, musings
There are still a few boxes/stacks of books scattered around the apartment, left over from that clearing and sorting binge I went through last winter when I was clearing out the storage room. The reason I’m noticing them now, of course, is that I’m trying to make my living area ...
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Posted by bbc on 23 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: musings
As I was busily restacking the unread magazine pile the other day, I realized I was engaging in active procrastination, rather than my usual passive style. I'm not actually reading the material I have lined up to read, but I'm doing something which is in itself useful -- i.e. straightening ...
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Posted by bbc on 18 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: musings
I realized recently that I miss getting dressed. Not that I'm a nudist or a naturist -- I've had my foray down that path and decided it wasn't for me. But that's another whole story. What I'm thinking about now is the putting on office clothes and going out to ...
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Posted by bbc on 15 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: musings
Some of us would have liked to live in an English country village -- one of the ones you read about in stories where houses have names instead of prosaic street addresses. Rose Cottage, or The Pines, and so on. So much more interesting that "245 SW Main Street." You ...
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Posted by bbc on 04 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: musings
It’s interesting how many things that are annoyances or worse are allowed to slide by because they’re “for your protection.” This is a first cousin to the claim that I used to hear a lot years ago, but not so much anymore, that something was being done “for your own ...
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Posted by bbc on 27 May 2008 | Tagged as: heard in the park blocks
"Does he have anything to do with roses?" I heard the question from a group of tourists -- addressed to one of their leaders, as I made my way through the Park Blocks in ...
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Posted by bbc on 26 May 2008 | Tagged as: musings
There's a lot of talk these days about convergence -- the movement of systems and processes toward some kind of unity or amalgamation. I was recently at a meeting of computer professionals where we had several sessions that talked about the development of new tools and programs that are gradually ...
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Posted by bbc on 24 May 2008 | Tagged as: musings
I'm not fanatical about reading the fine print on bottles and boxes, but I often do read anything that's put in front of me. So I was trying a new energy drink that had been handed out as a sample from a booth at one of the street fairs. Some ...
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Posted by bbc on 18 May 2008 | Tagged as: musings
The leaves have returned to the trees. This always happens and it's still incredibly amazing. I love watching them grow -- one day there's a haze of green and very swiftly there are full grown leaves, hiding the limbs I've been watching all winter and erasing the buildings from view. ...
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Posted by bbc on 17 May 2008 | Tagged as: musings, general
Wow, breaking the heat records in Oregon this weekend. A couple of days ago it was gray and drizzly and the high was in the low 60's. Yesterday and today it's been above 90 and even slightly humid. It feels like mid-May in Washington, D.C., where I used to live. ...
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